Monday, October 02, 2006

Photo Monday! -- Hair Watch 2006

As promised. My hair is growing WAAAAAAAY more slowly than I hoped or expected. Tomorrow makes 9 weeks since the end of chemo (yay), and as of today I still look bald, albeit with 5 o'clock shadow. It's progress, but not arrival. My new goal is to be able to go "topless" by November. Please send all your hairy thoughts my way.

Here's the head today: And the last time:

And just to acknowledge growth where it exists...here's a closeup shot of my eye, where you can see that eyebrow and lashes are actually looking like the real things. By the end of treatment, I had about three single lashes left on the upper lid of each eye, and none on the lower; and I've been down to maybe ten eyebrow hairs, total. Now I can even go easy on the eye pencil, so this really is progress:

Your Breast Cancer Blogger Today is...

I have two blogs--an inactive blog on my year of dealing with breast cancer (thankfully, and knock wood!, in the past) and one that has become my current record of adapting to life in Australia and learning to grow/create/cook my own Mexican food in a land with very few Mexicans!